Astrology
“planets, constellations, lunar days”
idea · 3 works · 3 mentions · 5 anchored passages
al-tanjīm · astrology · jyotiṣa · planets, lunar days, and constellations · risings and settings of the constellations · the influence of the stars · التنجيم
in the texts
Bayān zaghl al-ʻilm wa-al-ṭalab
Judicial star-reading, singled out as the false element within mathematical philosophy that damages religion and misleads its practitioner.
and there are falsehoods in it, out of astrology (*al-tanjīm*) and its like.
Cittaviśuddhiprakaraṇa
Astrological and calendrical categories (planets, lunar days, constellations, seasons, directions), which the text argues are mere conceptual constructs to be disregarded.
When a wise man has set himself to cleanse the wish-fulfilling jewel of the mind, smeared with the mud of ignorance, who would then go on nourishing ignorance [by such astrological scruple]?
There should be no regard for planet, lunar day, constellation, place, time, and the like;
planets, constellations, zodiacal signs, and the rest are all imagined by people.
On Fate
The doctrine that the position of stars at a person's birth determines aspects of their fate, examined through the logic of Chaldaean predictions.
As, then, the nature of a place has some bearing upon certain matters, but none upon others, so let the influence of the stars avail, if you will, for certain matters;
that Fabius was born at the rising of the Dog-star, and that Fabius will die at sea.
for it is a greater task to learn these contortions of language than the risings and settings of the constellations.